How to install Laravel on Linux

This tutorial will show you how to install Laravel on your Linux VPS. Laravel is an open source web application framework written in PHP which follows the model-view-controller (MVC) paradigm. Laravel is a young framework, but it quickly gained popularity thanks to the extensive documentation, friendly comunity and clean and classy code.

This tutorial assumes that you have :
-Web server (apache or nginx)
-PHP 5.3 or newer
* Please refer to the following articles about how to set up a LAMP or LNMP server.

Go to the web server’s root directory

Debian/Ubuntu

cd /var/www

CentOS/Fedora

cd /var/www/html

Download Laravel

wget -O laravel.zip http://laravel.com/download

Extract the archive contents and rename the extracted directory to “laravelsite” or whatever you like.